 Aeon Flux 2005  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi
Director: Karyn Kusama
Cast: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Caroline Chikezie, Nikolai Kinski, Paterson Joseph
It is 400 years into the future, and disease has taken most of Earth's population. But humans do survive in the city-state of Bregna where the leader of a rebellion, Handler (Frances McDormand), sends Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron) on a mission to assassinate a government leader.
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Afterglow 1997  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Rudolph
Cast: Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Jay Underwood, Domini Blythe, Yves Corbeil, Alan Fawcett, France Castel, Claudia Besso
Two couples–Phyllis (Julie Christie) and Lucky (Nick Nolte) and Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller)–are suffering because of unhappy marriages. When repair contractor Lucky arrives at Marianne and Jeffrey's apartment, Marianne becomes the object serviced. Meanwhile, Jeffrey finds comfort in Lucky's wife Phyllis who is only too happy to take on the mother role for Jeffrey. Julie Christie received a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
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 Dracula 2000 2000  R, 107 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
aka: Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000
Director: Patrick Lussier
Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell, Gerard Butler, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Esposito, Danny Masterson, Jeri Ryan, Lochlyn Munro, Sean Patrick Thomas, Christopher Plummer, Omar Epps, Tig Fong, Shane West, Nathan Fillion, Tony Munch
Inside London antiques dealer Abraham Van Helsing's (Christopher Plummer) vault lies Dracula (Gerard Butler)–at rest for 100 years. But thieves break in, and Dracula is resurrected. It isn't long before Dracula is on his way to New Orleans in pursuit of Van Helsing's daughter, Mary (Justine Waddell), who just happens to have a bit of Dracula's blood in her own veins. Following closely behind are Van Helsing and his assistant, Simon (Jonny Lee Miller). Can they reach America in time to save Mary?
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The Escapist 2002  R, 88 min.
Genre: Thriller
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Andy Serkis, Gary Lewis, Jodhi May, Paloma Baeza, Vas Blackwood, Phil Barantini, Paul Ronan, Barry Barnes, Barry Cassin, Rachel O'Riordan, Des Braiden
Criminal Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis) breaks into Denis's (Jonny Lee Miller) house, kills Denis's wife, is caught, and sent to prison. The distraught Denis seeks revenge, so he commits a crime, hoping to be put in the prison holding Ricky. In order to gain entry into the high security prison, Denis attempts escape after escape until finally being placed in Ricky's prison. Now, it's revenge time.
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Love, Honour and Obey 2000 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Cast: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) talks his boyhood pal, Jude (Jude Law), into getting him a job working for Jude's gangster-boss uncle, Ray (Ray Burdis), only to find that he is quickly bored with the new lifestyle. To liven things up, Jonny rips off a rival gang, and the ensuing gang war shifts into high gear.
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Mansfield Park 1999 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Patricia Rozema
Cast: Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Gish, James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Justine Waddell, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Talya Gordon, Lindsay Duncan, Bruce Byron, Philip Sarson
Based on Jane Austen's novel, set in 1806 London, this story revolves around the premise of Austen's day that money determines society. Fanny Price (Hannah Taylor-Gordon) is a poor ten-year-old girl who has been sent to live with well-to-do relatives in Mansfield Park. She establishes a bond with her cousin, Edmund Bertram (Philip Sarson), and later Fanny (now played by Frances O'Connor) and Edmund (now played by Jonny Lee Miller) fall in love. But love does NOT conquer all in 19th-century England, and when Fanny refuses an arranged marriage to Henry Crawford (Alessandro Nivola), she is sent out on her own.
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Melinda and Melinda 2004 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Will Ferrell, Chloe Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brooke Smith, Zak Orth, Amanda Peet, Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Josh Brolin, Daniel Sunjata
As the film skips between the two versions, playwrights Max (Larry Pine) and Sy (Wallace Shawn) take different approaches–one comedy, one tragedy–in telling the story of Melinda (Radha Mitchell) and her efforts to straighten out her life.
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Mindhunters 2004 R, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Eion Bailey, Clifton Collins Jr., Will Kemp, Kathryn Morris, Patricia Velasquez, Cassandra Bell, Trevor White
As part of their training for the FBI psychological program, seven young agents are sent to a remote island where they are to track down a serial killer, the Puppetmaster. But the game turns deadly serious when one of them turns out to be a serial killer who is killing off the other trainees, one by one. Now, those remaining must look for clues to figure out who is trying to murder them.
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Plunkett & Macleane 1999 R, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Jake Scott
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Liv Tyler, Michael Gambon, Ken Stott, Alan Cumming, Claire Rushbrook, Iain Robertson, Tommy Flanagan, James Thornton
Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller) and Plunkett (Robert Carlyle) are two rogues living in England during the mid-1700s–an era when highwaymen took advantage of the well-to-do aristocracy. Macleane and Plunkett meet and join forces to conduct their own game of ridding society's finest of their assets. They learn quickly, but their partnership is threatened when Macleane falls in love with the beautiful Lady Rebecca (Liv Tyler).
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 Regeneration 1997 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Behind the Lines
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, David Hayman, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, Dougray Scott, John Neville, Paul Young, Alastair Galbraith, Julian Fellowes, David Robb
Two poets, Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby) and Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), meet in an asylum during World War I. Owen is there because he could not cope with battlefield horrors, but Sassoon has been committed because he made a public statement condemning the war. Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce) is the psychiatrist whose job it is to "cure" the men quickly so they can be sent back into battle. Based on a novel by Pat Barker, which is based on the real-life story of Siegfried Sassoon.
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 Trainspotting 1996   R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald, James Cosmo, Peter Mullan, Eileen Nicholas, Susan Vidler, Pauline Lynch, Shirley Henderson, Stuart McQuarrie
The team that made "Shallow Grave" (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald, and screenwriter John Hodge) brings to the screen this insightful black comedy about young Edinburgh punks involved in, and loving, the world of drugs. This film is bound to be as controversial as its hero, Renton (Ewan McGregor), who heads straight into a world of addiction and tries to find the other side of his crisis.
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| 1. Aeon Flux (2005)
2. Afterglow (1997)
3. Dracula 2000 (2000)
aka: Wes Craven Presents Dracula 2000
4. The Escapist (2002)
5. Hackers (1995)
6. Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
7. Mansfield Park (1999)
8. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
9. Mindhunters (2004)
10. Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
11. Regeneration (1997)
aka: Behind the Lines
12. Trainspotting (1996)
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